Jun 20
2009
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My last project before we went on vacation. This one probably took twenty minutes from the idea to the finished item. This is one of my favourite skirts; it's a cotton linen blend twirly skirt and it had gotten a little too small. Not so small that it actually didn't fit - that's one of the nice things about twirly skirts - it just sat a little high. On other old skirts I find this fine but this one had a really wide waistband and I didn't like the way it was always running into my ribs.
I put on my skirt and marked where I would like the waistband to be, cut off the extra fabric (cutting right through the zipper), cut a long 2 1/4" binding strip from some cute fabric, folded it in half and sewed it along the cut edge of my skirt. I pressed my seam, folded the binding around to the back and sewed again in the ditch to secure it.
Voila, a much more comfortable skirt. The zipper is still kind of short (this skirt goes on over my head) and I might get around to replacing it sometime but it doesn't really bother me much.
Sadly the whole time we were on vacation it was very windy so this didn't get worn but I know it will see use this summer.
I put on my skirt and marked where I would like the waistband to be, cut off the extra fabric (cutting right through the zipper), cut a long 2 1/4" binding strip from some cute fabric, folded it in half and sewed it along the cut edge of my skirt. I pressed my seam, folded the binding around to the back and sewed again in the ditch to secure it.
Voila, a much more comfortable skirt. The zipper is still kind of short (this skirt goes on over my head) and I might get around to replacing it sometime but it doesn't really bother me much.
Sadly the whole time we were on vacation it was very windy so this didn't get worn but I know it will see use this summer.